Example sentences for: blighted

How can you use “blighted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the northern tip of the Jandía sands are the beautiful beaches of Costa Calma, not blighted as yet by over-development.

  • We are also studying the transformation of a blighted warehouse building into artists' live-work loft space, which could become a cultural and economic magnet for the area.

  • In 1852 the island’s precious vines were blighted by mildew, wiping out an estimated 90 percent of the total crop.

  • Most of today's independents are family-operated companies blighted by the biological law of "regression to the mean," which dictates that heirs are rarely as bright or motivated as founders (look at the San Francisco Chronicle ). So let's not reflexively mourn the gobbling of small media by big media.

  • The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.


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